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Long Term Impact (Aftermath)[edit]
Since 2008, when the first serious Namibia floods disaster occurred, they have become a devastating, almost annual event that finds most households hardly recovered from the previous flood.[1]The communities in the rural areas of North and Central Namibia were most affected by the floods. Their livelihoods are dependent on subsistence farming and the floods increased livestock and household vulnerability of the farmers.[2]
Water logging and retention due to the floods was associated with the loss of land productivity and soil degradation. The declining quality of soil affected the farming of sorghum and mahangu, their major staple foods which then caused escalated food prices in the region resulting to household food insecurity.[2]
Livestock on the other hand died in large numbers from drowning and the poor prevailing conditions made the remaining susceptible to diseases and parasites such as Lumpy skin disease and the African swine fever thus affecting many livelihoods.[3] Other impacts were on Public Infrastructure like roads, bridges, sewerage system, health facilities, market places and schools that were damaged extensively especially after the follow up floods of 2009 which exacerbated the impact of the 2008 floods.[4]
References[edit]
- ^ Hooli, Lauri Johannes (2016-3). "Resilience of the poorest: coping strategies and indigenous knowledge of living with the floods in Northern Namibia". Regional Environmental Change. 16 (3): 695–707. doi:10.1007/s10113-015-0782-5. ISSN 1436-3798.
{{cite journal}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ a b Angula, Margaret N.; Kaundjua, Maria B. (2016-01-13). "The changing climate and human vulnerability in north-central Namibia". Jàmbá: Journal of Disaster Risk Studies. 8 (2): 7. doi:10.4102/jamba.v8i2.200. ISSN 2072-845X.
- ^ "FAO GLOBAL INFORMATION AND EARLY WARNING SYSTEM ON FOOD AND AGRICULTURE - WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME". www.fao.org. Retrieved 2019-10-20.
- ^ "Close to 300, 000 population affected by floods in the northern region of Namibia - Namibia". ReliefWeb. Retrieved 2019-10-20.